Short Schrift

Ben Vershbow's post title at if:book is so good that I'm breaking my usual blog etiquette rules and stealing it. The idea is fantas...

Jon Mooallem writes a short history of bottle deposits , including current efforts to expand deposit programs to include bottled water and o...

I'm telling you -- New York Times TV can work. Pogue and Bittman -- who's had his own, very good, PBS cooking show -- would bring i...

In honor of the newly reconstructed Sophocles poem, Scott Horton has a fine translation of (and commentary on) Sophocles's "Ode to...

Der Spiegel has an unusual article about Objectophilia -- people who fall in love with things. One is quick to distance his sexual quirk fr...

It's a sign of how accustomed I've become to ludicrous city rents that when I read articles about young people scrambling and scammi...

My favorite musician David Byrne retells an amazing story about my favorite contemporary artist, Vik Muniz: A young man was dead and he and ...

There's a fantastic anti-endorsement editorial in today's Inquirer , all about Philadelphia's greatest living judge, Willis W. B...

Atul Gawande strikes me as something like a protagonist out of a 19th-century play or novel: the intelligent, humane physician/scientist, a...

Thank God -- Cnet reports that Nintendo is ramping up production of the Wii. I can never remember having gone into a store with the full in...